Teaching

• Amazing Green: The Plants that Transformed the World (BSCI135)

I am also the faculty advisor for a science student group called SACNAS: Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in the Sciences.

Research Interests

Teaching improvement and technology. Former research experience in: plant physiology, fruit development, plant hormones, postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.

Education

• B.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 1991
• Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

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